Yahoo News Black Panther star Letitia Wright lands key role in Death on the Nile
Black Panther star Letitia Wright has landed a major role in the upcoming adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wright will play a key character in the film, starring alongside Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer and Kenneth Branagh, who will once again direct following 2018's Murder on the Orient Express, as well as reprise his role as the massively-moustached Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
Wright is set to play Rosalie Otterbourne, a lead suspect in the story which follows Poirot as he attempts to solve the murder of a young heiress while on vacation in Egypt.
This will be the actress's first major non-Marvel film since her breakout performance in last year's box-office hit Black Panther. In addition to leading an episode of Black Mirror in 2017, she also recently appeared in Donald Glover's Amazon short film Guava Island.
Wright is set to return as her Black Panther character Shuri in Avengers: Endgame and also has roles lined up for an English-language remake of French hit Le Brio and sci-fi romance Hold Back the Stars, in which she'll star alongside John Boyega.
In January, Branagh announced that Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer and Killing Eve's Jodie Comer will make up the movie's "central trio" and, understandably, he's "very excited" about that.
"We're in the process of casting the rest. We want the same sense of event. Something I'm pleased about is that I bump into a lot actors I admire and they ask, 'Can I be in the next one?!' So I'll absolutely be taking them up on that," he added.
Death on the Nile will be released in US and UK cinemas on October 2, 2020.
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